Studies in American Indian Languages - Description and Theory

Klappentext This collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists today. Half of the essays treat Hokan languages! but Uto-Aztecan! Penutian! Muskogean! Iroquoian! Mayan! and other groups are also represented! with pieces on phonology! syntax! the lexicon! and discourse. Zusammenfassung A collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists.

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• Authors: Leanne Hinton, Leanne Munro Hinton
• Assisted by: Leanne Hinton (Editor), Hinton Leanne (Editor), Pamela Munro (Editor), Munro Pamela (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.1998
• EAN: 9780520097896
• ISBN: 978-0-520-09789-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: UC Publications in Linguistics; University of California Publi; UC Publications in Linguistics; University of California Publi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; North America, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, North America (USA and Canada), Historical and comparative linguistics, North & Central American indigenous languages, North and Central American indigenous languages